Miami Couple Accused Of Neglecting 5 Children

April 21, 1988|By BUDDY NEVINS, Staff Writer

MIAMI -- A couple were charged with child neglect on Wednesday after police, responding to reports of a fight at the home, said they found the family living amid scattered food, bones, beer cans, insects and human waste.

Joe Ann Allen, 31, was arrested and her husband was being sought after their five children were found living in the unsanitary house, police said.

The house, in the 1000 block of Northwest 55th Street, has had no running water for nine months. The bathtub was being used as a latrine and the bedsheets were covered with roaches, police said.